During one of their ubiquitous "class warfare" segments with Fox Business host Stuart Varney, Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson attacked comments made by Vice President Joe Biden at a recent reception for policemen and first responders, suggesting that Biden encouraged first responders not to respond to wealthy people's emergencies. Biden, of course, did no such thing.

While speaking at the reception, Biden told the first responders that there was an increased need for emergency response positions and pointed out that right-wing resistance to raising revenue for those positions by increasing taxes on the very wealthy was ironic, considering that the rich had more -- and more expensive -- property at risk from theft and fire. From an April 3 report by United Press International:

The vice president said political figures who oppose funding for public safety in difficult fiscal times “walked away because they didn't like the way we were paying for it.”

“The first guy who's going to have a problem is the guy whose $3 million home is on fire and you can't get a truck out there,” he said. “The first guy that's going to have a problem is the person who has real assets and finds their house burglarized or robbed, or their Porsche is stolen.

”I'm not very subtle; I find it find absolutely beyond my understanding," he said.

“There's one thing we know: the more cops on the street, the fewer cops get killed,” he said. “The more firefighters responding to a fire, the fewer injuries to the firefighters, because you have each other's backs.”

But while Biden was clearly making a statement about the importance of first responders to the protection of private property, Carlson found something far more nefarious in his comments:

CARLSON: Here's what the vice president said: “The first guy who's going to have a problem is the guy whose $3 million home is on fire and you can't get a truck out there. The first guy that's going to have a problem is the person who has real assets and finds their house burglarized or robbed or their Porsche is stolen.”

Here with more on this is Stuart Varney. Is he saying -- is the vice president of the United States encouraging first responders to not respond to rich people?

Varney responded by ignoring Carlson's inflammatory interpretation and focusing on the “class warfare” aspect of Biden's comments. But Carlson tried again later in the segment, using the Occupy Wall Street movement to pivot back into her baseless claim that Biden was telling first responders to ignore the wealthy, saying: “It kind of goes along the same vein as Occupy Wall Street, does it not? ... It's that same sort of concept that the 1 percent -- now we shouldn't help them when their house is burning.” Watch: